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scooter1369
HTTR Forever.
He had a long life and did a lot of good in this world. Coach Robinson is a man who should be honored yearly by the NCAA for his acheivements on and off the field.
He taught kids how to men and men how to be winners.
R.I.P. Coach Robinson.
He taught kids how to men and men how to be winners.
R.I.P. Coach Robinson.
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tibor75;803601; said:
He did have a 41-yard TD run for the first score of the game. tOSU racked up 500 yards, won the turnover battle 3-0, but the final score was only 24-10 in the 1997 opener.
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HineyBuck
Old newb
A class individual. Leader and builder of men. More than deserves all the accolades he is receiving. We lost one of the good ones. RIP.
Ironically, he was one of the few black men who saw any beneficial side of Jim Crow segregation. Before SEC schools began admitting and recruiting blacks, the best black athletes in the South could go North, West, or to Grambling. After segregation, Grambling was never able to compete with the big schools in recruiting. Despite its effects on his program, Mr Robinson was always a staunch civil rights advocate.
Ironically, he was one of the few black men who saw any beneficial side of Jim Crow segregation. Before SEC schools began admitting and recruiting blacks, the best black athletes in the South could go North, West, or to Grambling. After segregation, Grambling was never able to compete with the big schools in recruiting. Despite its effects on his program, Mr Robinson was always a staunch civil rights advocate.
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cincibuck
You kids stay off my lawn!
Coach Robinson was a long time friend of Woody Hayes.
I noticed that Paul "Tank" Younger of the LA Rams was the first player to reach the NFL from a "Historically Black College." Nice to note that Bill Willis of Ohio State had already been playing with the Browns for several years when Younger made it.
I think it wasn't until the late 60s that the Redskins and George Preston Marshall finally signed a black player.
I noticed that Paul "Tank" Younger of the LA Rams was the first player to reach the NFL from a "Historically Black College." Nice to note that Bill Willis of Ohio State had already been playing with the Browns for several years when Younger made it.
I think it wasn't until the late 60s that the Redskins and George Preston Marshall finally signed a black player.
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Buckeyedynasty
I'd hit it!
A classy coach and great man. 50+ years at one school is unreal. It is too bad that all the work he did throughout his life is just now coming out in the stories of the people who knew him best. He coached football the right way and he deserves to go down as one of the coaching greats of all time. RIP Eddie Robinson.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Eddie Robinson given rare honor
'Martin Luther King of football' will lie in state Monday
Eddie Robinson's body will be buried at Grambling on Wednesday.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Pallbearers carried the dark wooden casket of longtime Grambling State football coach Eddie Robinson up the granite steps of Louisiana's Capitol on Monday as more than 50 of his former players looked on.
The ex-players, ranging in age from 30 to 85 and clad in dark suits and white gloves, formed lines on either side as the casket was carried up the steps to the somber strains of "Just a Closer Walk with Thee" played by the Grambling State University band.
It was the beginning of a grand tribute to Robinson, who was a feed mill worker making 25 cents an hour in Baton Rouge when he heard about the vacancy in the coaching position at Grambling, a small black college in the rural, piney hills of northern Louisiana.
Entire article: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/football/ncaa/04/09/robinson.funeral.ap/index.html
'Martin Luther King of football' will lie in state Monday
Eddie Robinson's body will be buried at Grambling on Wednesday.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Pallbearers carried the dark wooden casket of longtime Grambling State football coach Eddie Robinson up the granite steps of Louisiana's Capitol on Monday as more than 50 of his former players looked on.
The ex-players, ranging in age from 30 to 85 and clad in dark suits and white gloves, formed lines on either side as the casket was carried up the steps to the somber strains of "Just a Closer Walk with Thee" played by the Grambling State University band.
It was the beginning of a grand tribute to Robinson, who was a feed mill worker making 25 cents an hour in Baton Rouge when he heard about the vacancy in the coaching position at Grambling, a small black college in the rural, piney hills of northern Louisiana.
Entire article: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/football/ncaa/04/09/robinson.funeral.ap/index.html
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BlockOFanatic
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may god rest his soul. great man who did great things.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Eddie Robinson is probably rolling over in his grave, the football program at Grambling sure has "hit rock bottom"...
Grambling St. players refuse to travel
Grambling State on Friday canceled its football game against Jackson State after Grambling's disgruntled players refused to travel to Jackson for the game Saturday.
The players -- upset with travel policies, poor facility conditions and a tumultuous coaching situation -- made a decision not to play at a team meeting Friday afternoon, a player told ESPN's Brett McMurphy.
"We aren't playing," the player said.
Entire article: http://espn.go.com/college-football...te-tigers-canceled-players-refuse-board-buses
Grambling St. players refuse to travel
Grambling State on Friday canceled its football game against Jackson State after Grambling's disgruntled players refused to travel to Jackson for the game Saturday.
The players -- upset with travel policies, poor facility conditions and a tumultuous coaching situation -- made a decision not to play at a team meeting Friday afternoon, a player told ESPN's Brett McMurphy.
"We aren't playing," the player said.
Entire article: http://espn.go.com/college-football...te-tigers-canceled-players-refuse-board-buses
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bukIpower
Head Coach
I'm sorry but if these kids get free rides even though they are grambling they should just shut up, quit whining, and represent their school well.
If I was grambling I'd release every one of those players from scholarship and ffind kids who will play the game regaurdless. Now we have kids who complain about not being pampered???? Gosh the sports world is really a sad place now a days. I guess the savings of 100k in student debt isnt enough
I would go to a game on bus, on train, or even a team walk if it meant playing the game of football for 4 years while getting a free education. Yet they complain about facilities and how they get to and from the game. I get coach issues but I have problems with these kids upset over decisions that are obviously financial based decisions on the part of grambling. This isn't ohio state or alabama they're freaking grambling the players are lucky they don't drop their scholarships... because I sure as hell would. Its simple if you don't play football I wouldn't pay a cent of their student loans. Infact I'd bill them for the fall semester if they con tinued
That's the problem in the usa now... always entitled without earning it is how our younger generation thinks. I'm only 28 years old but I'm sick and tired of kids looking at what other kids have and not paying attention to the great opportunity infront of them. Its not like grambling is fighting for a bcs bowl anytime soon so why should they have all the luxury of a school like ours?
It's simple. They shouldn't.
If I was grambling I'd release every one of those players from scholarship and ffind kids who will play the game regaurdless. Now we have kids who complain about not being pampered???? Gosh the sports world is really a sad place now a days. I guess the savings of 100k in student debt isnt enough
I would go to a game on bus, on train, or even a team walk if it meant playing the game of football for 4 years while getting a free education. Yet they complain about facilities and how they get to and from the game. I get coach issues but I have problems with these kids upset over decisions that are obviously financial based decisions on the part of grambling. This isn't ohio state or alabama they're freaking grambling the players are lucky they don't drop their scholarships... because I sure as hell would. Its simple if you don't play football I wouldn't pay a cent of their student loans. Infact I'd bill them for the fall semester if they con tinued
That's the problem in the usa now... always entitled without earning it is how our younger generation thinks. I'm only 28 years old but I'm sick and tired of kids looking at what other kids have and not paying attention to the great opportunity infront of them. Its not like grambling is fighting for a bcs bowl anytime soon so why should they have all the luxury of a school like ours?
It's simple. They shouldn't.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Re: If I was grambling I'd release every one of those players from scholarship and ffind kids who will play the game regaurdless. Now we have kids who complain about not being pampered???? Gosh the sports world is really a sad place now a days. I guess the savings of 100k in student debt isnt enough
I agree they all put their signature on the Grambling NCAA letter of intent; if they don't want to fulfill their football requirements they lose their scholarship. If they don't like it at Grambling and feel they can do better somewhere else, then they should just transfer at the end of the season. They are doing irreparable damage to Grambling's (once proud) football program.
S/I story......
The inside story of what caused Grambling football players to revolt
The once-proud Grambling St. football program that Eddie Robinson built is in danger of falling apart.
Start with the floor.
Anyone who wants to understand why the players on the 0-7 Grambling State football team revolted this week -- walking out of a Tuesday meeting with the school's president and athletic director, boycotting practice and finally refusing to travel to Saturday's game with Jackson State -- should visit the weight room in the school's Stadium Support Building. Then look down.
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Asked what it would take for Grambling football to thrive again as it did under Robinson, Gallot rubs three fingers together and says, simply: "Money."
Money alone won't fix Grambling. A broke school that fired a legendary alumnus, which just had its entire team stage a revolt, isn't primed for a turnaround. And what if the financial crisis doesn't subside, if students don't agree to the athletics fee or athletic revenue continues to dip? What then?
At a hastily called press conference on Friday, Pogue said of Grambling's future: "It is likely that it could take years to ever get back to the Grambling athletic image that it once enjoyed."
No one at the school is prepared to accept that Grambling may be changed forever and that there could be a time in the not-too-distant future when having a football program becomes financial untenable. For now, they've placed their hope in the search for a new coach, in the belief that it will turn up someone who can coalesce the players and the administration and the alumni, who can find new revenue streams, who can do more with less.
What has happened to Grambling football?
It is has gone back to the start, hoping that someone like Robinson, another miracle man, will come walking through the door.
Read More: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/college-football/news/20131018/grambling-football/#ixzz2iAiSR9YX
I agree they all put their signature on the Grambling NCAA letter of intent; if they don't want to fulfill their football requirements they lose their scholarship. If they don't like it at Grambling and feel they can do better somewhere else, then they should just transfer at the end of the season. They are doing irreparable damage to Grambling's (once proud) football program.
S/I story......
The inside story of what caused Grambling football players to revolt
The once-proud Grambling St. football program that Eddie Robinson built is in danger of falling apart.
Start with the floor.
Anyone who wants to understand why the players on the 0-7 Grambling State football team revolted this week -- walking out of a Tuesday meeting with the school's president and athletic director, boycotting practice and finally refusing to travel to Saturday's game with Jackson State -- should visit the weight room in the school's Stadium Support Building. Then look down.
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continued
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Asked what it would take for Grambling football to thrive again as it did under Robinson, Gallot rubs three fingers together and says, simply: "Money."
Money alone won't fix Grambling. A broke school that fired a legendary alumnus, which just had its entire team stage a revolt, isn't primed for a turnaround. And what if the financial crisis doesn't subside, if students don't agree to the athletics fee or athletic revenue continues to dip? What then?
At a hastily called press conference on Friday, Pogue said of Grambling's future: "It is likely that it could take years to ever get back to the Grambling athletic image that it once enjoyed."
No one at the school is prepared to accept that Grambling may be changed forever and that there could be a time in the not-too-distant future when having a football program becomes financial untenable. For now, they've placed their hope in the search for a new coach, in the belief that it will turn up someone who can coalesce the players and the administration and the alumni, who can find new revenue streams, who can do more with less.
What has happened to Grambling football?
It is has gone back to the start, hoping that someone like Robinson, another miracle man, will come walking through the door.
Read More: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/college-football/news/20131018/grambling-football/#ixzz2iAiSR9YX
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